Programming Jakarta Struts

Organization Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Comments and Questions Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Section 1.1. A Brief History of the Web Section 1.2. What Are Java Servlets? Section 1.3. JavaServer Pages Section 1.4. JSP Model 1 and Model 2 Architectures Section 1.5. Why Is Model-View-Controller So Important? Section 1.6. What Is a Framework? Section 1.7. Alternatives to Struts Chapter 2. Inside the Web Tier Section 2.1. An Architecture Overview Section 2.2. The HTTP Request/Response Phase Section 2.3. Struts and Scope Section 2.4. Using URL Parameters Section 2.5. Forward Versus Redirect Chapter 3. Overview of the Struts Framework Section 3.1. A Banking Account Example Section 3.2. Looking at the Big Picture Section 3.3. Struts Controller Components Section 3.4. Struts Model Components Section 3.5. Struts View Components Section 3.6. Multiple Application Support Section 3.7. Summary Chapter 4. Configuring Struts Applications Section 4.1. The Storefront Application Section 4.2. What Is a Web Application? Section 4.3. The Web Application Directory Structure Section 4.4. The Web Application Deployment Descriptor Section 4.5. Configuring the web.xml File for Struts Section 4.6. The Struts Configuration File Section 4.7. The Digester Component Section 4.8. The Struts Console Tool Section 4.9. Reloading the Configuration Files Chapter 5. Struts Controller Components Section 5.1. The Controller Mechanism Section 5.2. The Utilities Classes Chapter 6. Struts Model Components Section 6.1. The "M" in MVC Section 6.2. What Is a Business Object? Section 6.3. Persistence Section 6.4. What Does Struts Offer for the Model? Chapter 7. Struts View Components Section 7.1. What Is a View? Section 7.2. What Are ActionForms? Section 7.3. Using ActionErrors Section 7.4. Performing Presentation Validation Section 7.5. Using the DynaActionForm Class Section 7.6. Looking Ahead to JavaServer Faces Chapter 8. JSP Custom Tag Libraries Section 8.1. Custom Tags Overview Section 8.2. Tag Libraries Included with Struts Section 8.3. Using JavaBeans with Struts Tags Section 8.4. Struts HTML Tags Section 8.5. Logic Tags Section 8.6. Bean Tags Section 8.7. Nested Tags Section 8.8. Other Useful Tag Libraries Section 8.9. The JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) Chapter 9. Extending the Struts Framework Section 9.1. What Are Extension Points? Section 9.2. General Extension Points Section 9.3. Controller Extension Points Section 9.4. Extending View Components Section 9.5. Downsides to Extending the Framework Chapter 10. Exception Handling Section 10.1. Java Exception Handling Section 10.2. Performance Impact of Exception Handling Section 10.3. System Versus Application Exceptions Section 10.4. Using Chained Exceptions Section 10.5. Exception Handling Provided by Struts Section 10.6. Tying Up the Loose Ends Section 10.7. Conclusion Chapter 11. The Validator Framework Section 11.1. The Need for a Validation Framework Section 11.2. Installing and Configuring the Validator Section 11.3. Using an ActionForm with the Validator Section 11.4. Creating Your Own Validation Rules Section 11.5. The Validator and JSP Custom Tags Section 11.6. Internationalizing the Validation Section 11.7. Using the Validator Outside of Struts Chapter 12. Internationalization and Struts Section 12.1. What Is Internationalization? Section 12.2. Support for I18N in Java Section 12.3. Internationalizing Your Struts Applications Section 12.4. Exception Handling and Internationalization Chapter 13. Struts and Enterprise JavaBeans Section 13.1. Implementing the Storefront Service Using EJB Section 13.2. Interfacing Struts to EJB Section 13.3. Conclusion Chapter 14. Using Tiles Section 14.1. Understanding Templates Section 14.2. Installing and Configuring Tiles Section 14.3. Using Tiles Section 14.4. The Tiles Tag Library Section 14.5. Using Definitions Section 14.6. Internationalization Support with Tiles Chapter 15. Logging in a Struts Application Section 15.1. Logging in a Web Application Section 15.2. Using the Servlet Container for Logging Section 15.3. Jakarta Commons Logging Section 15.4. Using the log4j Package Section 15.5. Using Commons Logging in JSP Pages Section 15.6. The Performance Impact of log4j Section 15.7. Third-Party log4j Extensions Section 15.8. Java 1.4 Logging API Chapter 16. Packaging Your Struts Application Section 16.1. To Package or Not to Package Section 16.2. Packaging the Application as a WAR File Section 16.3. Building Your Struts Applications with Ant Section 16.4. Creating an Automated Build Environment Section 16.5. Restarting Your Server Remotely Chapter 17. Addressing Performance Section 17.1. What Is Good Performance? Section 17.2. Performance Versus Load Testing Section 17.3. Performance- and Stress-Testing Tools Section 17.4. Testing the Storefront Application Section 17.5. Performance and Scalability Gotchas Chapter 18. JavaServer Faces Section 18.1. Struts and JavaServer Faces Section 18.2. Overview of JSF Architecture Section 18.3. Installing and Running the Example Struts-Faces Application Section 18.4. Converting Existing Struts Applications to JSF Section 18.5. Further Reading Appendix A. Changes Since Struts 1.0 Section A.1. ActionServlet and RequestProcessor Section A.2. Modifications to the Struts Action Class Section A.3. Changes to web.xml and struts-config.xml Section A.4. Action Statics Changed Section A.5. TagUtils and ModuleUtils Section A.6. New Features of Struts 1.1 Section A.7. The Struts Validator Section A.8. Change to Commons Logging Section A.9. Removal of Admin Actions Section A.10. Deprecation of the GenericDataSource Section A.11. Dependency on Commons Projects Appendix B. Downloading and Installing Struts Section B.1. The Binary Versus Source Distributions Section B.2. Tips on Installing Struts in Tomcat Section B.3. Tips on Installing Struts in WebLogic Section B.4. Tips on Installing Struts in WebSphere Appendix C. Resources Section C.1. The Struts Mailing Lists Section C.2. The Struts Resource Web Page Section C.3. Tiles Site Section C.4. Nested Tags Site Section C.5. The Struts Console Section C.6. Easy Struts Project